U.S. stocks slide as trade negotiations stall

U.S. stocks broadly fell on Monday as investors began pondering again the eventual outcome of the increasingly protracted U.S. trade talks with China.

"The markets are trying to come up with some expectation for the outcome of trade talks and figure out where and how they want to price it in"

The U.S. dollar was little changed.

NEW YORK, New York - U.S. stocks broadly fell on Monday as investors began pondering again the eventual outcome of the increasingly protracted U.S. trade talks with China.

"The markets are trying to come up with some expectation for the outcome of trade talks and figure out where and how they want to price it in," Shawn Cruz, manager of trader strategy at TD Ameritrade in Jersey City, New Jersey was quoted by the Reuters Thomson news agency on Monday.

The U.S. dollar was little changed.

At the close of trading Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 95.7 points, or 0.36%, at 26,478.02.

The Standard and Poor's 500 ,fell 13.22 points, or 0.45%, to 2,938.79.

The Nasdaq Composite declined 26.18 points, or 0.33%, to 7,956.29.

The euro was last quoted at 1.0970 in New York trading around the close on Monday.

The British pound was unmoved at 1.2294. The Japanese yen weakened to 107.24.

The Swiss franc was unchanged at 0.9947.

The Canadian dollar was a few points stronger at 1.3310. The Australian dollar was a few basis points weaker at 0.6731. The New Zealand dollar was little changed at 0.6288.